Champagne With A Twist
January, 2005
There are reasons champagne is the default drink for romantic occasions. Soon after a blind monk named Dom Pérignon produced the first vintage in 1690 (or so the myth goes), champagne as we know it became the original cult wine. It was so elegant you could sip it out of a lady's slipper--and that's saying something in the days before the shower was invented. Because the wine was expensive and carried an aura of mystery ("I'm drinking stars!" the monk supposedly shouted after his first...
